Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney’s BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures have restimulated interest in the topic of ‘value’. For Carney, the first decades of a century of crisis have been characterised by a continuing commitment to abstract ‘subjective’ …
A revaluation of value? The politics of value between populism and pandemic
The English translation of the article first appeared on PPPR “Riots are born not because of little things but out of little things“ Aristotle, Politics, V Tackling the theme of neopopulism – a term that will be justified in the …
Neopopulism as a Problem: Between Geopolitics and Class Struggle*
In classical fascism, an organization, initially external to the state and strictly hierarchically structured, gained dominance over the state apparatuses through legal seizure of power, only to merge with them in a specific way, thus maintaining the crisis-ridden capitalist system …
In classical fascism, an organization that was at first externally and strictly hierarchically structured for the state gained dominance over the state apparatuses through the legal assumption of power, and then merged with them in a specific way, whereby the …
What follows is a translation of a blog post by Carbure. It is a collaboration between ourselves & Otto Mattick. The original text was published on Dec. 3rd, 2018. Saturday December 1st, the Gilets Jaunes movement had ceased to belong …
I promised another post on fictions, but first, and by means of introduction, a few more remarks on populism, prompted by Bat at Lenin’s Tomb, Jon at Posthegemonic Musings, Le Colonel Chabert and Kenneth Rufo at Ghost in the Wire. …
Free movement over markets is a minimum demand. In the most recent German elections, Die Linke (the Left) secured the fifth most seats in the Bundestag, the nation’s parliament. At the same time, nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) came third, …
Leseprobe aus: Sebastian Budgen / Stathis Kouvelakis / Slavoj Žižek (Hrsg.): Lenin Reloaded – Für eine Politik der Wahrheit Laika Verlag … Obwohl Laclaus Populismustheorie als eines der heutigen großen (und für die Gesellschaftstheorie leider raren) Beispiele einer wirklichen konzeptuellen …
Eine leninistische Geste heute: Gegen die populistische Versuchung